Sou'wester

Issue date: 2/4/09 Section: Entertainment

Pho Saigon offers Vietnamese cuisine, aspects of which taste good, but on the whole, this restaurant is just a confusing experience.
For starters, most of the staff does not speak English. My waiter had to keep coming back and forth from the kitchen with a menu
to point out to me what was available. I thought I should order the "pho," a beef noodle soup that was the specialty there. What I failed
to understand from the menu was that the soup comes out in a gallon bowl that could feed an entire army. So, in addition to what I
ordered for my meal, it was way too much food.
The entrees there are pretty cheap-you can get almost anything for less than $8.00. They have a wide range of soup, noodle, and
rice dishes with various types of meat. I had rice with pork. The pork was fantastic and flavorful, while the rice was strange and slimy.
The plate was also piled with bean sprouts, cucumbers, jalapenos, and lemons. I had no idea to do with all that stuff, so I left the restaurant
having eaten little more than the pork and a few sips of the soup.
Located on Poplar next to the McDonald's I would say, go there if you know how to navigate your way around a Vietnamese menu.
Otherwise, stick to someplace a little more straightforward.

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